Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still have a letter dated September 1939 , just after the outbreak of war , saying that ‘ Sir Fowler Harrison would be obliged if Mrs Birkett would supply eight or nine pounds of Cotherstone cheese , going blue if possible , and another ready for eating at once ’ . |
| 2 | This possibility is worth suggesting to more experienced pilots , but , of course , is not suitable for a beginner . |
| 3 | She instantly strode across the shop and took a book from among thousands and assured me that it contained all I would ever need to know about cooking for ever . |
| 4 | Shops did not open for trading until 3pm — just as many shoppers were heading home to watch the FA Cup final on television . |
| 5 | Ideally , flowers should be picked for pressing between 10am and midday , as by this time the dew will have dried on the petals or leaves but the sun will not yet have faded the colours . |
| 6 | FORMER world champion Wayne Gardner , though refusing to confirm his retirement , admitted the chances of his returning to racing following his crash in Japan two weeks ago were remote when he visited Eastern Creek during qualifying for tomorrow 's Australian Grand Prix . |
| 7 | Admittedly the difference between understanding from inside and explaining from outside will seem to be pretty thin , if beliefs and desires can appear in scientific explanations . |
| 8 | The IBOA fundamentally disagrees with this course of action as the clarification document which resulted from the Labour Court Recommendation 13601 clearly indicates times for opening from 10.00a.m. to 4.00p.m. uninterrupted with one late opening day . |
| 9 | And just the sense of security and I do n't think that the level of incidence was very high , but it was enough to make people feel insecure about walking through there at night . |
| 10 | This shows the early postoperative mortality and we have defined early mortality as appearing at less than thirty days . |
| 11 | After walking for approximately a quarter of a mile he stopped outside a small detached cottage on his left . |
| 12 | But after walking for about fifty yards we came to another thinner wall of barbed wire with a gate in it . |
| 13 | After walking for about 20 minutes he saw two red pinpoints ahead of him , the tail-lights of a car . |
| 14 | After walking from 9am to 4pm all were invited to a dance at the Assembly Rooms , and the ‘ enlivening sport was kept up to a late hour ’ , according to a newspaper report . |
| 15 | After driving for about ten minutes Jed looked away to the right . |
| 16 | After pressing for about twenty seconds you remove your hand and , as you do so , you remove the coin but take it upwards so it can not be seen , look at the forehead as if the coin is still there and start everyone counting . |
| 17 | After living for about eighty years , they become ill and miserable . |
| 18 | Recently , I was one of three selectors of the annual New Contemporaries show , chosen from the submissions of art students and recent graduates.4 The works are entered anonymously , and after looking at more than 2,000 images , we arrived at an exhibition of 22 artists — of whom four were men . |
| 19 | With the price hovering just about 30p — after peaking at more than 200p earlier that year — the company looked vulnerable . |
| 20 | ‘ Right , that 's it , ’ said Brown five minutes later , after listening to both McCrea and Somerville on the line from Kensington . |
| 21 | After listening to around 100 hours of the spontaneous speech of 48 inner-city speakers ( see 4.3.1 ) the investigators received the impression that occurrences of examples such as ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) alternating with their standard counterparts were extremely frequent . |
| 22 | … that after paying at least a dozen visits to Cambridge and engaging in the most unpleasant negotiations I have ever had in my life , we have managed to retain recognition as a body which is normally recognised for Chapter III powers and obtained an agreement which the University people hate like poison . |
| 23 | So after weaning at around 6 weeks she will need Whiskas Kitten Food until she 's about 6 months old . |
| 24 | A MAN who usually stuck to soft drinks died after downing at least a dozen whiskies , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 25 | It is an inevitable reality now after waiting for over nine months for the Commission for Racial Equality to investigate and take appropriate action . |
| 26 | He stayed on a ventilator but died after surviving for just 14 hours . |
| 27 | After reaching at least 400 feet , engine power will be reduced to a defined amount and the flaps and slats retracted ( or , in the jargon , the aircraft will be ‘ cleaned up ’ ) . |
| 28 | He escaped minutes after arriving at 3pm . |
| 29 | It is possible they dropped onto the Yorkshire coast after migrating from somewhere south of Britain for no flock of this size has been seen anywhere in the country through the winter . |
| 30 | This adds a bit of fun to the proceedings , but the same questions crop up repetitively , so its quite easy to cheat by remembering the answers after playing for only a short time . |